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Haotian Chen, Zhiyong Xiao

Swin-TUNA introduces a Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) method for accurate food image segmentation, achieving state-of-the-art performance on the FoodSeg103 dataset with 50.56% mIoU while reducing trainable parameters by 98.7% compared to fully fine-tuned large models. This approach enables the efficient deployment of high-performance segmentation models in resource-constrained environments.

Key insights

• Hierarchical adaptation of parameters, tailored to the distinct nature of features at different network depths (e.g., shallow for local details, deep for semantic information), is crucial for optimal PEFT performance in vision tasks.
• Carefully designed PEFT methods can not only match but also surpass the accuracy of computationally intensive full fine-tuning, especially on domain-specific datasets where catastrophic forgetting is a concern.
• Lightweight depth-wise convolutions combined with 1x1 point-wise convolutions within adapter modules can effectively reduce computational load while retaining representational capacity for fine-grained segmentation.

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